Harlem Renaissance Highlights
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Harlem Renaissance Highlights
-1920 was a decade of extraordinary creativity in the arts for black America, these years marked especially in brilliant moment in the history of blacks in America
-New York City became a magnet for thousands of blacks fleeing the South in the after math of the entrenchment of segregation following the end of reconstruction
-Harlem and New York quickly became the headquarters of many of the most important African America cultural and political national organizations including NAACP
-The Play for a Negro Theatre by Ridgeley Torrance was the most important single event in the entire history of the Negros in the American theatre
-Two leading white figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance were Carl Van Venhten and Charlotte Osgood Mason
-Mason supported a number of black artists in this period including Hurston, Hughes and Locke
-African Americans gained confidence and purpose
-Langston Hughes once did not know that the Harlem Renaissance was going on
-Dubois organized in the crisis symposium which appeared in several issues of the new net work
-In 1928 emphasis among the waters of the renaissance shifted away from poetry and toward fiction
-African American Poets were able to publish in magazines but few books
-Women began to grow into self confidence and self fulfillment
-The crash on Wall Street was the beginning of the end of the movement
-by 1935 a civic explosion ended the Renaissance
-Harlem renaissance represents a prodigious achievement from slavery
-African American artist laid the foundation for the representation of their people in the modern world
-Harlem Renaissance rediscovered ancient confidence and sense of destiny of their African ancestors
-1920 was a decade of extraordinary creativity in the arts for black America, these years marked especially in brilliant moment in the history of blacks in America
-New York City became a magnet for thousands of blacks fleeing the South in the after math of the entrenchment of segregation following the end of reconstruction
-Harlem and New York quickly became the headquarters of many of the most important African America cultural and political national organizations including NAACP
-The Play for a Negro Theatre by Ridgeley Torrance was the most important single event in the entire history of the Negros in the American theatre
-Two leading white figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance were Carl Van Venhten and Charlotte Osgood Mason
-Mason supported a number of black artists in this period including Hurston, Hughes and Locke
-African Americans gained confidence and purpose
-Langston Hughes once did not know that the Harlem Renaissance was going on
-Dubois organized in the crisis symposium which appeared in several issues of the new net work
-In 1928 emphasis among the waters of the renaissance shifted away from poetry and toward fiction
-African American Poets were able to publish in magazines but few books
-Women began to grow into self confidence and self fulfillment
-The crash on Wall Street was the beginning of the end of the movement
-by 1935 a civic explosion ended the Renaissance
-Harlem renaissance represents a prodigious achievement from slavery
-African American artist laid the foundation for the representation of their people in the modern world
-Harlem Renaissance rediscovered ancient confidence and sense of destiny of their African ancestors
Mother To Son - Langston Hughes
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Situation:
The poem tells a story, the message he tries to portray is not to give up on life and you can achieve whatever you want, the emotion he describes is determination. The speaker is the mother of the son and is through a fictional persona because it is not directed exactly toward the reader; he is just speaking out toward the reader.
Tone:
The speaker’s attitude is inspirational and positive because he mentions that life is not been a crystal ball but you must keep striving.
Form:
There is no rhyme scheme within the poem, it is written in free style. Thus maybe to emphasis that you are free to do anything in life that you aspire to do a long as you put your mind to it.
Movement:
The poem overlaps into a deeper meaning of determination then goes back to “life for me ain’t been no crystal star”
Syntax
There are 20 sentences in the poem and they are all simple.
Punctuation:
There are a lot of commas within the poem. This isn’t an example of an end-stopped line. I believe the poet wants the reader to stop midway through the sentence to think about and take in what you are reading.
Language:
The language is simple and I knew what the words meant.
Allusion:
There is allusion to reality of life and how you must push through problems
Imagery:
The poet gives the reader a visual relative view rather than no connection to the poem at all.
Rhyme Scheme:
There was no rhyme scheme within the poem, but still a flow easy to follow. The poem created a change in attitude for the reader because it created a feeling for the reader to feel as anything is possible and nothing in life can hold one down as long as one is willing to push through and overcome challenges.
The poem tells a story, the message he tries to portray is not to give up on life and you can achieve whatever you want, the emotion he describes is determination. The speaker is the mother of the son and is through a fictional persona because it is not directed exactly toward the reader; he is just speaking out toward the reader.
Tone:
The speaker’s attitude is inspirational and positive because he mentions that life is not been a crystal ball but you must keep striving.
Form:
There is no rhyme scheme within the poem, it is written in free style. Thus maybe to emphasis that you are free to do anything in life that you aspire to do a long as you put your mind to it.
Movement:
The poem overlaps into a deeper meaning of determination then goes back to “life for me ain’t been no crystal star”
Syntax
There are 20 sentences in the poem and they are all simple.
Punctuation:
There are a lot of commas within the poem. This isn’t an example of an end-stopped line. I believe the poet wants the reader to stop midway through the sentence to think about and take in what you are reading.
Language:
The language is simple and I knew what the words meant.
Allusion:
There is allusion to reality of life and how you must push through problems
Imagery:
The poet gives the reader a visual relative view rather than no connection to the poem at all.
Rhyme Scheme:
There was no rhyme scheme within the poem, but still a flow easy to follow. The poem created a change in attitude for the reader because it created a feeling for the reader to feel as anything is possible and nothing in life can hold one down as long as one is willing to push through and overcome challenges.